Do other peoples personalities...........

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I have a tendency to 'reflect' other peoples parts of their personality who I am around to some degree. It is as if it some sort of adapting mechanism to 'crate a bridge' for social communications... otherwise I would be almost non-verbal...

My wife calls it me being a 'chameleon', blending in with the surroundings.

I dont really know why but some people tell me Im an Actress

I've always done this as well and I'm constantly amazed by other people who can manage different accents. Depending on my mood, I will sometimes speak a certain word or phrase in varying accents just to see how it will sound. There's a study that came out recently by some marketing agency somewhere (don't feel like googling it right now) that found out Americans will pay far more attention to a spokesperson for a product or service if that speaker has a British or Australian accent. This is probably why there's been a large number of people from the UK hosting the infomercials I sometimes find myself watching in the middle of the night.

The accents that I've been told I can manage pretty well (very convincingly in some cases) are several UK accents, French and Cajun accents, Castilian and Mexican accents (I also speak both Mexican and Castilian forms of Spanish fairly fluently and have been told that I don't have any trace of an 'American accent') and several other weird ones I've picked up from TV. One of my favorites is to copy the 'German' Colonel Klink from the 'Hogan's Heroes' TV show from way back when (late 60's I think).

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Me sneaky black kitty... Meow

Often my problem is that I hide too well, people can not see that I have a problem, and for some reason people forget my name. It is anoying I wish that people will notice me more, though it is not all that bad, I can hide in an embarasing situation.

developing healthy emotional expression is very important

this for the first time in my life I am getting help with. Being oppressed by abusive people and the ignorance in society seriously does your head in.

Nope.

Mimicking wasn't something I innately did; I used stock phrases that I inducted from a whole slew of sources, and I spoke of my interest.

I remember people pointed out I sounded like certain people, so perhaps I did do it now and again, but it was nowhere near significant in relation to my interaction.